2024-10-29T18:18:19-07:00 2023-12-31 811539105 Diane H McInally CPA LLC 5060 SW Philomath Blvd PMB 341 Corvallis OR 97333 990 2023-01-01 271003508 CORVALLIS SUSTAINABILITY COALITION CORV 5412301237 PO Box 2310 Corvallis OR 97339 Annette Mills Director 5412301237 2024-10-30 1 1 Diane McInally P01358735 5412074740 2024-10-30 X 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Annette Mills 228 NW 28th St Corvallis OR 97330 150785 0 X www.sustainablecorvallis.org X 2009 OR To promote an ecologically, economically, and socially healthy city and county through democratic decision-making processes consistent with our guiding objectives. 11 11 5 340 0 0 259383 137143 0 5720 1699 7922 0 0 261082 150785 90471 89527 0 0 49732 85747 0 0 15268 56892 138627 197095 313901 63987 -163116 606769 446438 0 0 606769 446438 To promote an ecologically, economically, and socially healthy city and county through democratic decision-making processes consistent with our guiding objectives. 0 0 94243 10177 0 Protecting Natural Areas and Supporting Sustainable Transportation: The Water Action Team led a culvert replacement project in the Bald Hill Natural Area, expanding the culvert's diameter from 10 inches to 8 feet to release the headwaters of the North Branch of Dunawi Creek. Since 2016, volunteers have planted and maintained over 8,000 native plants at the site in preparation for "daylighting" of the stream for the first time in over 100 years. The team is regenerating 13 active sites in Corvallis, including the Bald Hill Natural Area and Starker Arts Park, where the team continued to regenerate a functional wetland, planting many more wetland species, increasing wetland habitats, and improving the wetland soils. In addition, at Lamprey Creek in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, the team continued to develop the native riparian buffer to further protect the stream during the upcoming park development. The Transportation Action Team, which is working to make Corvallis more livable by promoting walking, biking and use of public transit, co-sponsored the 5th annual Open Streets with the City of Corvallis. The event featured a mile of walkable, bikeable streets for people to explore neighborhoods around Corvallis and fun activities for people of all ages such as live music, dance, games and fitness activities. In addition, team volunteers turned car trips into bike trips by providing portable bike racks at community events. They transported the racks (by bike!) to Concerts at SAGE, Open Streets, Septembeerfest, Octoberfest, Corvallis Fall Festival, and Funk in the Forest. At every event, the racks were packed with bikes. The team continued to promote active transportation by sponsoring their webinar series about safer multimodal street design. A highlight of the series was "Great Corvallis Streets: Road Diets", presented by Dan Burden, a nationally-recognized authority on making streets more bikeable and walkable. They also organized an electric vehicle Show & Tell event at the Green Living Expo, bringing together current and potential owners of electric cars, e-bikes, and other EVs. 91869 500 0 Fostering a Sustainable Local Food System and Encouraging Waste Prevention: The Food Action Team sustained It's On Us (IOU) Corvallis, feeding people in need of a meal at local restaurants. They continued to partner with a mobile payment app (Kuto) to provide electronic gift cards for use at participating restaurants, making it easier for customers to order meals and to save restaurants significantly on credit card fees. The program also teamed up with the Corvallis Farmers' Market to distribute $20,000 in ARPA funds, supporting local farmers by enabling recipients of Farmers' Market currency to purchase Farmers' Market items of their choice. In addition, the team partnered with Corvallis-Benton County Public Library to create a new Public Seed Library stocked with commercial seed packets. Over 1,500 new and partially used seed packets were donated and distributed. Seven free lectures and 6 pop-up Vegetable Garden Plant Clinics were sponsored in collaboration with Benton County OSU Extension and Master Gardeners. Also, the team distributed nearly 1,000 copies of the 2023 Corvallis Garden Resource Guide and organized an Edible Garden Tour that attracted hundreds of attendees. Their Neighborhood Planters Kiosks, located at 33 residential and public sites, displayed weekly posters to support gardening and neighborhood connections. And, in partnership with Corvallis-Benton County Public Library and Corvallis Community Center, the Food Action Team sponsored a second successful year of "Cooks and Books", pairing library cookbooks with the talents of local chefs and showcasing a variety of ethnic cuisines. The No Food Left Behind program of the Waste Prevention Action Team introduced a new interactive game, Food Waste Prevention Bingo, and distributed thousands of "Smart Strategies" in English and Spanish, teaching how and why to prevent wasted food at home. They also distributed 100 countertop composting pails to make sure inedible food scraps make it from kitchen-to-compost instead of from lunch-to-landfill. The Recycling Block Captains program distributed three separate handouts, educating their neighbors about contamination at the curb, creating less trash, and electronic waste. The team continued to offer both print and online versions of the popular ReUse Directory and concluded the Benton To Go pilot project at nine participating restaurants, enabling customers to use reusable takeout containers and restaurants to cut costs. 49841 0 0 Community Outreach, Engaging Volunteers, and Creating an Inclusive Community: As a network of almost 400 partner organizations (businesses, nonprofit organizations, faith communities, educational institutions, and local government units) and hundreds of individual volunteers, the Coalition provided grassroots leadership, inspiration, resources, and opportunities for collaboration in working on sustainability issues. The Coalition encouraged community involvement and interaction by inviting the entire community to its annual and quarterly meetings, where attendees had the opportunity to network and share information about sustainability issues, and numerous presenters among the partner organizations and 12 action teams presented their sustainability accomplishments. The monthly Sustainability Events Calendar also provided opportunities for community members to learn about our partners' activities. In March 2023 the Coalition hosted its annual Sustainability Fair and Town Hall event to continue highlighting the sustainability efforts of the community with the "Community Scrapbook" slide show, and to prompt discussions among the participants in small groups on local sustainability topics. The Sustainability Fair featured local food and musicians, and about 40 hands-on sustainability exhibits. The featured speakers at the Town Hall event were local climate action activists, and a highlight of the program was the launch of a new initiative to help the community become more energy secure. The Coalition also seeks to create an inclusive community. One way to accomplish that is through the Neighborhood Roots program, which completed its second year of increasing shade equity by planting native trees on private properties. Volunteers identified a prospective neighborhood, reached out to residents in the summer, and held a planting party in the fall. Also, the Coalition co-sponsored the 7th annual Champinefu Series, designed to inspire the Corvallis community to acknowledge, understand, and collaborate with the Kalapuya culture. The three-session series included an evening of winter storytelling, during which 440 attendees heard indigenous stories of place in both English and Kalapuyan languages. The Coalition's Steering Committee continues to implement an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Framework by including discussion of EDI resources as part of their monthly meetings. In addition to the $49,841 of cash expenditures for community outreach, engaging volunteers, and creating an inclusive community, a facility rental valued at $5,400 was donated for the Sustainability Fair and Town Hall event. 37010 16000 0 Acting on Climate Change by Making Buildings More Energy Efficient and Shifting to Renewable Energy: The Coalition's newest initiative is Shift Together, a 5-year campaign to support everyone in our community with the resources and funding to move toward increased energy efficiency and renewable energy. Generous federal and state incentives and rebates are key to the campaign. In collaboration with Seeds for the Sol and Energy Trust of Oregon, the Energy Action Team provided 101 home energy assessments, serving 89 low-to-middle income households and helping them access incentives that allow them to make energy efficiency upgrades at low to no cost. Since 2021, they also have facilitated more than 150 Home Retrofit Clinics. This free, two-hour consultation helps homeowners explore available incentives and improvements such as electric heat pump water heaters and heat pumps to heat and cool their homes. Also, in partnership with Oregon Clean Power Co-op and our solar host organizations, the team also raised $192,000 in community investments and donations to support Solarize Corvallis solar installations for local schools and organizations. Each Solarize Corvallis project helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while saving the host organizations significant costs on their monthly electric bills. So far, Solarize Corvallis has completed 12 large-scale projects. In 2023 three projects were completed (the installation of solar panels at Franklin K-8 School, Cheldelin Middle School, and Benton County Historical Society), and a grant was awarded to First Alternative Natural Foods Cooperative for the installation of solar panels. 37010 16000 0 272963 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 OR X X Annette Mills 5412301237 228 NW 28th Street Corvallis OR 97330 Annette Mills Director 40 0 X X 0 0 0 Brandon Trelstad Vice Director 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Kirsten Talabere Secretary 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Gibb Treasurer 5 0 X X 0 0 0 Rena Chen Steering Committee Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Johannah Hamilton Steering Committee Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Loma Hammond Steering Committee Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Sean McGuire Steering Committee Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Andrea Norris Steering Committee Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Aura Thomas-Sargent Steering Committee Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Carlos Valdes-Casillas Steering Committee Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10886 126257 0 137143 Event Exhibitor Fees 813312 4220 0 0 4220 Environmental Consulting Stipend 541620 1500 0 0 1500 0 0 0 0 5720 7922 0 0 7922 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 150785 0 0 13642 X 26677 26677 62850 62850 77765 58627 8764 10374 7982 6024 897 1061 656 656 8851 812 7918 121 84449 84449 11407 11407 6584 4876 309 1399 4359 2609 1165 585 0 253 230 23 438 438 4784 4784 Supplies for Action Teams' Projects 12868 12868 0 0 Online Processing Fees 1728 0 0 1728 Fees and Permits 1130 576 554 0 Professional Development 1120 520 600 0 313901 272963 25670 15268 41290 25469 532916 382026 32563 38943 606769 446438 0 0 X 332213 320406 274556 126032 606769 446438 606769 446438 -163116 2785 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 115086 454851 201031 259383 137143 1167494 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 115086 454851 201031 259383 137143 1167494 76650 1090844 2148 3861 2627 1641 5720 15997 0 0 0 0 0 0 29019 0 0 0 5720 34739 1218230 0.89543 0.86655 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 - Other income in 2019 consisted of climate action project management fees and exhibitor fees for two program events (Sustainability Fair and Spring Garden Festival). Other income in 2023 consisted of an environmental health consulting stipend and exhibitor fees received for two program events (Sustainability Fair and Spring Garden Festival). RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 32563 2455 3925 0 0 0 38943 34927 3367 -5731 0 0 0 32563 29612 409 4906 0 0 0 34927 24966 658 3988 0 0 0 29612 18188 2550 4228 0 0 0 24966 0 1 0 1 0 Schedule D, Part V, Line 4 The intended use of the permanent endowment is to be used for the long-term financial support of the Coalition and its programs. 1 City of Corvallis 501 SW Madison Ave Corvallis OR 97333 936002145 City of Corvallis 10177 0 The Transportation Action Team, which is working to make Corvallis more livable by promoting walking, biking and use of public transit, co-sponsored the 5th annual Open Streets with the City of Corvallis. The event featured a mile of walkable, bikeable streets for people to explore neighborhoods around Corvallis and fun activities for people of all ages such as live music, dance, games and fitness activities. First Alternative Natural Foods Cooperative 1007 SE 3rd St Corvallis OR 97333 930643296 16000 0 Partnering with the Oregon Clean Power Co-op and with support from local donors and community investors, the Sustainability Coalition is helping Corvallis make the transition to renewable energy. Each Solarize Corvallis project helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while saving the host organizations significant costs on their monthly electric bills. In 2023 three projects were completed (installation of solar panels at Franklin K-8 School, Cheldelin Middle School, and the Benton County Historical Society) and the Coalition awarded a $16,000 grant to First Alternative Natural Foods Cooperative for the installation of solar panels. These projects help advance the Coalition's charitable purpose of promoting an ecologically, economically, and socially healthy city and county through democratic decision-making processes consistent with the Coalition's guiding objectives, one of which is to reduce and ultimately eliminate our community's dependence on fossil fuels. 2 1 The Food Action Team sustained It's On Us (IOU) Corvallis, feeding people in need of a meal at local restaurants. They continued to partner with a mobile payment app (Kuto) to provide electronic gift cards for use at participating restaurants, making it easier for customers to order meals and to save restaurants significantly on credit card fees. The program also teamed up with the Corvallis Farmers' Market to distribute $20,000 in ARPA funds, supporting local farmers by enabling recipients of Farmers' Market currency to purchase Farmers' Market items of their choice. 2215 62850 0 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 The Coalition uses an expenditure system that requires approval by the appropriate level of management or action team leaders to ensure the proper spending of grant and Coalition funds. Individual grant and action team balances are tracked and monitored by the Coalition. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Prior to filing Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service, the Finance Committee reviews the return and makes suggestions about changes needed to make the return more accurate, and the preparer revises the return if necessary. The Finance Committee then makes a recommendation to the Steering Committee about approving the return as prepared. The Steering Committee then reviews and approves Form 990 for filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Steering Committee provides all members with the conflict of interest policy. Steering Committee members are required to disclose any conflicts that arise on issues that are brought before the Steering Committee and then abstain from participating in the discussion or voting on such issues. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Form 990, Form 1023, IRS determination letter, corporate bylaws, and financial statements are provided upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Other Fees for Services totaling $84,449 include: Aquatic restoration services $78,699, Lecturers $3,000, Event planner $1,000, Musicians $750, Videographer $600, and Graphic designer $400.